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SUMMARY:OPEN CALL: TALK BACK
DESCRIPTION:“A gif of the words TALK BACK written in large\, block letters\, with colorful patterns changing over the letters. The background is yellow with red dots.” \n \nFLUX FACTORY OPEN CALL- TALK BACK\nTALK BACK is supported by a generous grant from the NYC Cultural Affairs Disability Forward Fund. \nFLUX FACTORY is thrilled to announce TALK BACK\, Flux Factory’s first open call and exhibition specifically for artists and organizers with disabilities. \nDEADLINE: MONDAY MARCH 18th\, 11:59pm\nAPPLY HERE\n\nFor audio guidelines please go to www.fluxfactory.org/news/talk-back-audio\nFor PDF version of this Open Call\, please go to www.docdroid.net/BhQ57lx/talk-back-pdf.pdf\n \nTALK BACK seeks to center the lives and leadership of disabled artists and asserts that deep-rooted cultural changes must be made within the art world to become more inclusive and accessible. TALK BACK believes that disability must be included in conversations about diversity. One part of affecting change in the art world is by placing disabled artists in positions of influence within the arts to influence change from within.\n\nTALK BACK focuses on how contemporary artists with disabilities are presenting their work and invites disabled artists to submit work that dismantles systems of ableism\, either overtly or quietly. How do we examine\, interrogate\, and resist ableist and classists systems inside the art world? How can we employ the art world to examine social and cultural systems that surround disability outside the art world?\n\nTALK BACK imagines a reality yet to exist\, shifts able-normativity assumptions that every body is able-bodied\, illuminates non-binary futures from able to disabled and debunks disability and “heroism”. TALK BACK envisions and celebrates joy\, radical care\, sovereign bodies\, community building\, non-verbal and alternative forms of communication. TALK BACK disrupts through quiet protest\, individual\, overt and mass protest that includes multiple ways of showing up. TALK BACK works within and against Capitalism\, classism and medical ableism to redefine value\, productivity and worth. TALK BACK makes room for criticism\, restoration liberation\, coming out\, ownership of one’s mind and body\, access demands\, intersectionality and utopias to offer multiple entry points to TALK BACK.\n\nTALK BACK invites proposals for workshops\, performances\, gatherings\, walks\, spoken word\, screenings\, visual arts\, video\, sound works\, DIY\, panels\, grassroots\, poetry\, books\, installations\, zines\, artist talks\, performance lectures\, discussions\, events\, collaborations with your caregiver\, allies\, advocates\, support and service animals. Please know that TALK BACK is an an open call for artists and organizers with disabilities.\n\nDEADLINE: MONDAY MARCH 18th\, 11:59pm\nGo to TALK BACK application HERE\, thank you! \n\nImportant TALK BACK dates to note:\nOpen Call Closes: March 18\nInstallation Dates: May 6th – 8th\nOpening Date: Thursday May 9th \nClosing Date: June 2nd \nDeinstallation Date: June 3rd and 4th\n\nParticipants will receive a small honorarium for their work and limited access to Materials for the Arts.\n\nFlux Factory gallery and ground floor bathroom is ADA Accessible. The closest subway stations with street level elevators is Queens Plaza (E\, M\, R trains)\, and 21st Street Queensbridge (F Train). MTA Elevator and Escalator Status\n\nPlease feel free to contact curators Lexy Ho-Tai or moira williams at access@fluxfactory.org for further assistance concerning our TALK BACK Open Call and if you have accessibility questions or concerns. Thank you!\n\nTALK BACK is made possible through in-kind support from Materials for the Arts\, and supported by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. \n \n \n \n
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SUMMARY:Anahita\, the water’s revenge: Solo Exhibition by Sholeh Asgary
DESCRIPTION: \nAnahita\, the Water’s Revenge\n \nRSVP on the Facebook.\nFlux Gallery\, this location is wheelchair accessible \n \n\nExhibition dates: February 22 – 24\n\n\nGallery hours: \n\n\nFriday\, Saturday\, Sunday 1-6 pm\n\n\nFriday and Sunday event hours 6-10pm\nor by appointment email sholehasgary@gmail.com\n\n\n\n\nOpening Reception:\nFriday February 22\, 6-10 pm\n“Earth’s Mouth” performance by Dew Igworia\ndj XspiritMental with a performance by Spiritchild \n\n\nClosing Reception: \n\n\nSunday February 24\, 6-10 pm\n\n\nmusic and sound performances by Sholeh Asgary and Saint Abdullah\nperformances by Jevijoe Vitug Theabangguard and KS Brewer\n\n\nofferings by Nova Scott-James\n\n\nadditional guests TBA\n\n\nAnahita\, is an ancient pre-Zoroastrian goddess of water from the Persian region. She has been diluted and adapted over time\, from empire to empire. What if water determined time instead of the clock? Anahita makes her return\, her known and forgotten qualities imagined as an installation of media\, sculpture and light. Working with Light as a medium\, is as close as one can come to traveling back through time. This is Anahita’s revenge against the mechanical apparatus of time\, the opening where she and memory meet to reconstruct a new story of travel and representation.\n\nSholeh Asgary is an Iranian-American multidisciplinary artist who references lens based media through sculpture\, painting\, installation and sound. Born in 1982 in Tehran\, she began crossing borders at 6 months old\, when her parents had to flee Iran to seek political refugee status. She spent the first few years of her life seeking asylum in various countries before accepted in the United States. Asgary earned her BA\, with a focus on photography and painting\, from San Francisco State University in 2007\, studied at the Accademia di belli Arti in Florence\, Italy in 2004\, and received an MFA in studio arts from Mills College in 2011. Her work has been shown in galleries and institutions internationally; Asgary’s sound work has been released by independent artist label: Cutty Strange Records\, has guest performed for experimental composer CTRL Z at Stanford University and Mills College in 2017\, and was a featured artist at the 2018 SoundWave Biennial. Asgary was a recipient of the 2014 Alternative Exposure Grant (Andy Warhol Foundation) for her programming initiatives\, when she was Curator/Director of Education/Public Programs at Incline Gallery (San Francisco)\, and where she founded The Project Room. She lives and works in Oakland\, where she is a photography professor at several Bay Area universities. She is a past resident of Krowswork (2016) and workshop participant of Guillermo Gomez-Peña’s La Pocha Nostra at SOMArts (2018)\, a current artist-in-residence at Flux Factory in Long Island City\, NY\, and resident at Wassaic Project (2019).\n
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